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First, the fragility, a.k.a. risk. A year ago, officials at the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve didn't think letting Lehman go bankrupt would be a disaster. Those same officials have since argued that the law gave them no choice. But it's also clear that the authorities--then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, in particular--didn't want to intervene. The Fed and Treasury had taken a lot of flak for their earlier bailouts of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was time to let the market work...
...instructor at the camp, cast Harris in his 1988 movie, Clara's Heart. His parents moved with him to L.A. during Doogie's four-year run, and after it ended in 1993, Harris kept working in TV, film and theater, acquiring exactly the skills you'd need to go into show business in 1890: magic, acrobatics, singing and dancing. Because his fame came early, he's now more interested in doing fun stuff--reading at the Christmas show at his beloved Disney World, serving on the board of Hollywood's Magic Castle (a club for magicians), producing an interactive-mystery...
...started when a buddy told him there was a script floating around, titled Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, in which Neil Patrick Harris appeared as a selfish, arrogant jerk. "My friend thought it wasn't very funny and thought I should talk to my lawyer about it," he says. Instead, he signed up for the role and played it to the hilt. Because that character called himself NPH, Harris now uses those initials to sign autographs and identify himself on his voice mail. "He's extremely comfortable with who he is," says Harold & Kumar co-writer Jon Hurwitz...
...does not have a historical skeleton, it doesn’t need one. “What it is in pursuit of is a heart,” he said. “That might tell us a lot about where the country is and where it needs to go...
...When you go up and catch the ball, you just automatically kind of kill your legs and try to drag them somehow,” Luft said. “There’s some difficultly level to it, but it’s stuff you kind of do all the time...